Assembling a bountiful hors d'oeuvres spread is easier than you think. Keep just a few of these versatile ingredients on hand, and you'll always be ready for a party.
Chefs have turned us on to the beauty of canned San Marzano tomatoes, but it turns out that these most flavorful plum varieties have another use aside from the easy weeknight pasta sauce: You can layer them onto this easy tart and bake it for an impressive-looking, toasty hors d'oeuvre.
Salty slices of cold roast beef, creamy and tangy blue cheese and tart green grapes threaded onto a skewer make for one of the most amazing, flavorful appetizers you can throw together with three common supermarket foods.
As chefs across the country continue to pickle everything from Brussels sprouts to cabbage, plain old pickles (er, pickled cucumbers) are still some of the best. Though many of the newer varieties hitting gourmet grocery shelves are terrific on their own, you can spruce them up with this no-brainer trick from Lynnae Schneller, founder of Lynnae's Gourmet Pickles: Spread them with cream cheese and wrap them with slices of ham.
Chef, cookbook author and TV personality Sara Moulton makes these crunchy, savory, Asian-influenced snacks with store-bought convenience items: thin rice crackers, mayo, wasabi and precooked shrimp.
The "recipe" for this Italian sandwich-on-a-stick is so simple, you’ll make it once and remember it forever. All you need are cherry tomatoes, baby mozzarella (aka bocconcini), olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, basil leaves and a fistful of toothpicks.
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